Corrosive-preventing liquid composition



Patented Jan. 12, 1926,

UNITED STATES PATENT oFF ca;

CHESTER A. SEASE, 0F HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FIFTH TOJOHN G. HOPWOOD, ONE-FIFTH TO JOHN M. FLETCHER, ONE-FIFTH TO JAMES S,CAREY, ALL OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, AND ONE-FIFTH TO FRANK M.

' HUNTER, OF LOWER PAXTON TOWNSHIP, DAUPHIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

GORROSIVE-EREVENTING LIQUID COMPOSITION.

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To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, CHESTER A. SEASE, acitizen of the United States, residing in the city of Harrisburg, countyof Dauphin, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulCorrosive-Preventing Liquid lomposition, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is the production of an adhesive liquidcomposition to be applied to the surface of battery terminals and wires,and other corrodible battery parts, as a coating for the prevention, ofcorrosion.

My composition consists of a mixture of ammonium steara-te, otherwiseknown as ammonia powder, naphthalene powder,

1 naphthalene balls, ammonia and water.

In preparing the composition I prefer to tse the ingredients in aboutthe following proportions. viz: ammon um stearate, two

.' pounds; naphthalene powder, one and onehalf pounds; naphthaleneballs, one-half pound; ammonia, two quarts; water, about nine gallons.In mixing the ingredients I first put the ammonium stearate in areceptacle or vessel and dissolve it in two quarts of water. After theammonium stearate has been dissolved, I boil it for twenty minutes.Immediately atthe end of the twenty-min- Application filed October 31,1924. Serial No. 747,136.

ute boiling period I add the other ingredicnts in the following order:first, the ammonia, then the naphthalene balls, then the naphthalenepowder and last the water; the

water being poured in in sufiicient quantity to make ten gallons of thecomposition.

My composition is non-poisonous, is nonexplosive, is non-inflammable, isnon-freezing, adheres to the surface to which it is applied, and as awhole possesses in a high degree allthe desired properties forpreventing the corrosion of battery terminals and wires and all othercorrodible battery parts, it being necessary to make about sixty-dayperiodic applications of my composition t0- continuously insure againstcorrosion.

I claim:

1. An adhesive liquid composition adapted to form a coating for batteryterminals, wires and all corrodible battery parts comprising one tothree pounds of ammonium stearate, three pounds of naphthalene powder,one to three quarts of ammonium hydroxide, and eight to ten gallons ofwater.

An adhesive liquid composition consisting of two' pounds of ammoniumstearate, three pounds of naphthalene powder, two quarts of ammoniumhydroxide and nine gallons of water.

CHESTER A. SEASE.

